Manuscripts
Microfilm of various writings related to the Haskell family, as well as Thales Haskell's autobiography covering the years from 1834-1855. All of the writings except for the autobiography are typescripts. Included are several poems and songs, including "The Virgin Ditch," "Lochinvar's Ride," "T.H. Haskell's Lament While Exploring," "The Michigan Forest," "Death of Young George A. Smith," "Lines on the Death of My Mother" (1851) by Hannah Maria Woodbury Haskell, and "Deseret Our Home" by Johanna Maria Woodbury Haskell; two biographies (one partially in the first person) of Margaret Johannah Edwards Haskell (1825-1916); biographies on Thales Haskell from the San Juan Record (1920) and the Deseret News (1909); 3 letters from the Church President's office to Haskell on his work with the San Juan Indian Mission (1887-1889); orders from Erastus Snow in St. George regarding Utah settlements and Indian relations (1870); a letter from John R. Young to Sister Harrison (1930); and a brief outline of the life of the death of Hannah Maria Woodbury Haskell by Johanna Maria Haskell Harrison. The autobiography of Thales H. Haskell begins with his father's decision to convert to Mormonism and move to Nauvoo and describes sailing from New York to New Orleans on the ship Gloucester, traveling across the plains to Utah from Council Bluffs, Thales' joining a company of a cavalry company and going to Fort Bridger to "take Mr. Bridger prisoner if possible and put down quarrelling about the Green River ferries & co.", the subsequent taking of prisoners and cattle from Fort Bridger, his running a sawmill in Little Cottonwood, his volunteering for the Southern Indian Mission, and his 1854 trip to Fort Harmony and being asked to be an Indian interpreter by Brigham Young. The autobiography ends in 1855. Included is some genealogy and a family record.
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